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THU WEEKLY IIILO
TRIBUNlJ,
1111,0, HAWAII, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1905.
Whooping
Cough
Cnn be greatly relieved by our
Syrup of White Pine
Cough Balsam
and ordinary coughs arc
quickly cured. It is one of
those remedies that begin to
help from the first dose, and
the quicker you take this dose
the quicker you will be cured.
TRY IT NOW
PRICE, 25c.
HILO DRUG
CO., LIMITED
H. h. SHAW, - Managur I
SERRAO LIQUOR CO
LIMITED
WHOLESALE
LIQUOR
DEALERS
Complete Stock of Finest Tabic
Wines, Beers, Whiskies, Gins,
Brandies nnd Liqueurs.
Sole Agent for
PR I MO BEER
Wholesale House:
Serrao Block, Shipman Street
Telephone No. 7
THE UNION SALOON
Always on Hand:
BEST BRANDS
Of Wines, Liquors, Beers
Mixed Drinks a Specialty
Draught and Bottled
PRIMO AND
SEATTLE BEER
lOc Por Class
Shipman Street
Telephone No. 7
J. G. SERRAO, Manager
PLANTERS' LINE
OF
SAILING VESSELS
Direct Line between SAN FRANCISCO
AND HILO.
Hark St. Catharine, Capt. Saunders
Bark Amy. Tumor, Capt. Warland
Dark Martha Davis, Capt. McAUman
QUICK DISPATCH
For freight and passage apply to
WBLCH & CO., Agents, San Francisco
C. BREWER & CO., Ltd., Agents,
Honolulu, or
H. Hackfeld&Co., Ltd.
AUENTS, HILO.
Union Barber Shop.
CANARIO & STONE, Props.
Wo Shavo, Cut Hair and
Shampoo at Lot-Livo Rates
All razors cleaned with antiseptics after
being used.
Perfumes of the finest quality kept in
stock, a trial of which is solicited.
We also take particular pains with Chil
dren's Kaircuttfng.
Union Building, Waianuenue St.
WM. G. IRWIN& CO., Ltd.
Sugar Factors,
Commission Agents
Sole Agents for
Kational Cane Shredders,
Baldwin Locomotives,
Alex. Cross & Sons' Sugar Cane
and Coffee Fertilizers.
CUT GLASS
WATCHES, DIAMONDS
SILVER AND PLATED WARE
J.D. KENNEDY Jeweler
SMALL FARMERS AND
SUGAR PLANTATIONS.
1
Jared Smith Believes the Plantations Will Eventually
Be Cut Up Into Small Holdings Advantages to
I Hawaii An Attractive
He Can Get Land Encouragement Needed.
In an open letter to the Adver
tiser, dated January 14th, Jared
Smith, in charge of the U. S. Ex
perimental Station at Honolulu,
makes the following prophecy on
the future of Hawaii as an agricul
tural community:
"It is an easy matter in any dis
cussion of public events to sound
the cry that dust is being raised for
the purpose of confusing the mental
vision of the jury that is to decide
as to the guilt or innocence of the
accused. In the case of the Pink
ham commission, who or what is it
that is on trial? Is it the small far
mer ns against the white mechanic
and laborer? I do not think so. Is
it sugar cane versus diversified in
dustries? To my mind the planta
tion system, as existent in Hawaii,
is on trial for life. The case will
probably be continued through ma
ny terms of court and appeal will be
taken on every .debatable point to
the highest tribunal Congress and
the President.
A cheap and abundant supply of
labor is one of the chief factors to
ward n continuation of the planta
tion system indefinitely, but it is
not the dominant factor. The one
factor that makes possible the culti
vation of any crop on a business ba
sis similar to that employed in the
case of a bank, or a rail-road, or a
manufacturing corporation, is that
all the arable laud suited for that
crop shall be owned by a limited
number of individuals or corpo
rations rather than by a large num
ber of individuals. Where the land
is cut up into small holdings the
cultivation of any crop under the
plantation system is impossible.
If two thousand, or ten thousand,
white mechanics and skilled la
borers were induced to come to
Hawaii, would they stay here un
der a continuation of this policy
and these conditions?
The advocates of the plantation
system justify their monopoly of
the agricultural lands on the grounds
that the cultivation of cane has be
come ,o intensive that it is for all
practical purposes to be considered
as a sort of manufacturing enter
prise. On many plantations culti
vation is on a highly artificial basis.
Fully t,wo-thirds of the plantations
would pass out of existence if the
protective tariff on sugar entering
the American market were repeal
ed. But cane would continue to be
grown wherever the land is suffi
ciently fertile so long as a profit
were to accrue to the landholders
who would produce it.
Concentration and amalgamation
may be the rule in business, bank
ing and manufacture, but world
wide tendency in agriculture is the
other way. The tobacco, cotton
and cane plantations of the South
have given way to tobacco, cotton
and cane farmers, so that the South
produces ten times as much as these
staples today as it did during the
regime of the old system. The big
ranches of the West and South
west have deen cut up into small
holdings, with the result that in
many cases ten acres support more
cattle than a hundred acres did be
fore. In every instance where
great estates in passing are suc
ceeded by increase in number of
land owners, it means a general in
crease of individual wealth.
What Hawaii needs most of all
is, not a greater volume of trade
with the mainland and foreign coun
tries, but a greater volume of trade
here nt home. To secure this we
must have a marked increase in the
white population!.
The question narrows drwn to
this: Do we want while farmers and
mechanics or do we not want them.
To set the advantages of the far
mer against the mechanic or vice
versa is to beg the question. If
any considerable number of white
Field for White Farmer, If
farmers nnd mechanics gain a foot
hold in Hawaii the cud of the plan
tation system will surely follow.
When cane or ranch lands now
under lease at merely nominal renk
tals are offered at public auction as
the leases expire the present lessees
(in many instances corporations or
estates) will run the chance either
of having to pay much larger ren
tals or some farmer may bid in the
land and the present lessee may
lose it. If there were ten thousand
white farmers and mechanics in
Hawaii instead of a few hundred,
as today, there would be more com
petition for the Government lands,
I do not believe that there would
necessarily follow any material re
duction in the output of sugar.
The white man has acquired the
habit of thinking for himscll. The
racial inferiority of the black, brown
and yellow man is due, not to his
color, but to his acquired habit of
letting other people think for him.
The laboring classes of any country
are its chief source of wealth. The
savings of the laborer constitute ca
pital for the dclcvopment of new
resources. The volume of daily
expenditures of the laborer controls
the volume of trade among the mer
chants. The Asiatic labor contri
butes his savings to the develop
ment of the land from which he
came. He does not insist upon the
right to own land here because he
expects to return to his native coun
try as soon as he has acquired a
competency.
The white man, be he mechanic
or farmer, expects to own his home
and prefers to work for himself.
Any white man who remains in
Hawaii three years would rather
live here than any other place in
the world, provided he can buy
land for a home, and if he can get
land he will stay. A rented house
in an acre of leased land is uot a
home in which the average white
man hopes to spend his declining
years.
Is Hawaii to be operated simply
as a cold-blooded business proposi
tion? Is the cheap production of
sugar to be the cud and aim of our
social and political life? Sugar can
be produced more cheaply in Cuba
than in Hawaii, not because the
abundance of cheap labor in Cuba,
but because cane laud can be bought
for five dollars an acre, cleared and
planted for a comparatively small
sum and the cane harvested in a
shorter season. Less cultivation is
required, no irrigation or fertiliza
tion, and the fields may be ratooued
for ten or twenty years. These
facts may all be readily verified, but
the men who make money out of
sugar in Cuba do not live there and
do not want to. They reside in
New York, or Paris or London.
The laud is hot, malarial, unhealthy
and unsafe. The planter that
makes money out of cheap sugar
in Cuba wants to live somewhere
else.
In Hawaii it is different. The
laud is fair to look upon, the cli
mate better than anywhere in the
world. Kvery white man who
stays in Hawaii twelve months
will ever after long to return, if he
goes away. The climate is uot trop
ical although the whole group lies
within the tropic zone. Every na
tural and climate condition is in
favor of the health and comfort of
the white race. Hawaii is a good
laud to live in. When people on
the mainland discover what superior
advantages Hawaii has in the mat
ter of climate they will come here
not only to visit but to make their
homes, and we cannot keep them
out.
Thus, although Cuba may be
able to grow cheaper sugar, Ha
waii nas actual, material advan
tages that discount the former's two
million ton sugar crop.
Sugar cane will continue to grow I
in Hawaii even though ten thous
and while farmers and mechanics
come to live in the islands. When
we acquire n .stronger while popu
lation the whole community will
benefit in every way. Who is there
that wauls, to go on record as as
advocate of the theory that "the
American is n failure" in Hawaii?
The racial solidity of the Japa
nese is such that when the numbers
of llawaiiau-borii men of that natio
nality outnumber the Caucasian
and Hawaiian voters they can dic
tate legislation to suit their own
ideas and ideals. We already have
sonic six hundred voters of Chi
nese and Japanese parentage. Ja
pan is a world power standing on
absolutely an equal footing with
any other nation. Ily treaty and
ttadition her citizens must receive
equal privileges and equal protec
tion with citizens of the Caucasian
race so long as they obey the laws
of the United States nnd remain
within the borders of its juris
diction. On the mainland the in
coming Japanese will undoubtedly
amalgamate with the numerically
superior white race. In Hawaii,
will the children of the ninety thou
sand Chinese and Japanese laborers
and merchants, when' they attain
manhood and the privileges of Am
erican citizenship, remain Orien
tals, or are they going to acquire and
exercise and mautaiu American
ideals of government?
As Americans and Hawaiiaus we
must face this problem and consider
it fairly, squarely and openly. Be
cause our native-born Chinese and
Japanese citizens have thus far tak
en little part in public life and
affairs, is no valid excuse that we
should ignore the situation that is
bound to develop in' the future.
Today is the time to plan for the
morrow. Tomorrow it will be too
late. The pratical, up-to-date and
wide-awake merchant may sub
scribe to the laissez faire doctrine
as affecting the social economy of
the State, but if he runs his own
business in that way he goes to the
wall. The business of government,
present and future, directly affects
every American citizen.
JARED G. SMITH.
To Mexico.
Efforts are being made, it ap
pears to secure immigration of Por
tuguese of Hawaii to Mexico and
contracts are being considered for
furtherance of the plan. J. J.
Souza has made public the follow
ing letter on the subject:
1 Mexico City, Dec. 27, 1904.
Mr. Joaquim J. de Souza, 716 Kea
we Street, Honolulu, H. I.
Dear Sir: Mr. Fernando Leyte
de Foyos informs me of your pur
poses for the immigration to this
country of a large number of Por
tuguese families. I also saw your
letter of 9th of past November, ad
dressed to Mr. Ramon Carona, re
ferring to your agreement made
with said gentleman during your
instance here about the said matter
that you believed of the utmost
importance.
On account that my client, Mr.
Leyte, and 1 are proposing to the
Mexican Government an immigra
tion contract, and we are also ar
ranging such contracts with some
private firms, I think it would be
useful for you to inform me about
the terms required by the immi
grants that you propose; the num
ber of families, the date in which
they may leave from there, and if
said immigrants are all farmers.
Trusting to be favored with an
early reply, I remain
Very respectfully yours,
AUGUSTO L. ROSADO.
Citizen Labor.
A bill to regulate the employ
ment of labor has been introduced
in the House by Representative
Adams of Pennsylvania, "by re
quest." The mcosuie provides
that any person or company em
ploying mechanics or any
other help shall give preference to
American citizens and the neigh
bors in the vicinity of such em
ployers, before giving work to
foreigners, or people being at a
distance. That no employer shall
have the right to discharge an em
ploye for a petty cause so long as
work is giv-Mi. That eight hours
of labor shall be deemed a legal
day's work. There are many
other radical provisions embodied
in the bill.
ATKINSON (IAI.LE1) DOWN.
Ilplcgnto Kulilo Write That Score
tnry Atkinson lulorfcroH
Ullh Work.
In nn open letter, under date of
January 4, 1905, published in the
Evening Bulletin nt Honolulu,
Delegate Kalauiaunolc criticises
Secretary Atkinson for interfering
with nnd hindering his work before
Congress. He says in part:
"These would-be friends of the
Secretary iliavc sought to give out
the impression that Chairman Bur
ton of the Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee and other leaders of Con
gress have requested that the Sec
retary remain here for a month to
give information 011 Hawaiian mat
ters. Secretary Atkinson would
not himself give out a statement at
once so foolish and implying such
ignorance on the part of Honolulu
people in regard to methods of work
in the House and Senate.
Mr. Burton's private secretary,
when asked in regard to the rumor,
laughed at it as an excellent joke,
as Mr. Burton has almost daily to
refuse requests for fifteen-minute
interviews both with Members of
the House and men who come here
from all parts of the country to
press river and harbor projects.
"Diligent inquiry here at the
Capital seems to indicate that the
entire story is based on the sugges
tion of a division clerk in the In
terior Department, who has super
vised the publishing of the Gover
nor's report, and who suggested
the desirability of having the Sec
retary remain."
The Delegate then describes the
difficulties of doing effective work
at Washington and in detail shows
what he has accomplished. Con
tinuing, he says:
"I have held the Honolulu Har
bor matter as of first importance,
and bent every energy to that mea
sure. The cooperation of all who
have helped in the effort to secure
the special action necessary to get
Honolulu Harbor Appropriation
Bill this year has been appreciated;
but the matter has been involved
and difficult one and easy to be de
feated by any confusion in hand
ling. "Secretary Atkinson is very an
xious to help the cause; but one of
his first acts since returning from
New York was, without consulting
me, to go to the Secretary of War
and ask him to do what the War
Department had just completed do
ing. Secretary Taft, not being
personally familiar with the matter,
consented and at once passed down
the order to his subordinates; the
natural result at the War Depart
ment will be confusion, and dissatis
faction, and distrust of Hawaii's
men and methods.
"If I had broken into Secretary
Atkinson's bond negotiations in the
same manner, I think the citizens
of Hawaii would have justly criti
cized me.
"I chose Mr. McClellan as my
secretary with the approval of both
the commercial organizations of
Honolulu; we have worked syste
matically for the securing of this
difficult harbor legislation, and his
services have been very satisfactory.
After the first conference with Mr.
Burton he told his secretary that
our statement was one of the stron
gest non- technical presentations of
a new harbor project that had ever
been made before him. It is nau
seating to have to quote such per
sonal matters as these, but it seems
necessary in order to show that my
secretary aud myself are really able
to intelligently present measures iu
Congress.
"I do not claim all the credit for
securing the special order from Mr.
Burton, but if it had been induced
by Mr. Atkinson's efforts, it would
naturally have come when he saw
him last in November, instead of
two weeks after" Mr. Atkinson had
left the city.
"I appreciate the help of every cit
izen of Hawaii who will co-operate
in a definite plan of work here at
the Capital. But for individual
men in Honolulu to maintain Sec
retary Atkinson or any one else
here by the month as an indepen
dent worker, can lead only to con
fusion and injury to Hawaii's in
terests. Very truly yours,
J. K. Kalanianaoi.u,'
Delegate to Congress.
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Skin
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Vim riiunol Iihvo a clear nnd smooth
i.i'i unless tho blond is purr.
iiuic'iiM, iTiiptiiins, rnnli!, pimples,
ill slm.v Imw Inipiiro tin) lili'od must
1. . (let nil Impurltlos nut of your
blood In fniu you aro seriously ill.
MIm Dorothy Maher.of Flttror, Victoria,
somU bur photograph anil tlil letter :
"I lad a tcrrll)lo eruption on my fan-,
which w u of a very Irritating nature. I trwil
muiiy blood medicines, Imt without roller,
friend tolil mo to tryAcr'i Haraapiirllla.
ni It wa a moit famous blood remedy, I did
no, and after taking only two Imttlei l began
to sea a. groat clianzo. lly tlio tlmn tho third
Ixittlo waa lined the eruption bad entlruly
disappeared, nnd without leavliiK m.rkoii
m fnco. I am perfectly woll now, mid lowu
It all to thii croat blood-purlfylui; muiwdy."
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